Three young men are in custody for the murder outside Patricia in central Stockholm this weekend.
All three are known to the police.
One of them was recently sentenced to prison for knife crime but never started serving the sentence, the second is acquitted of a fatal stabbing and the third has been warned by the authorities since he was young.
The police were called to Södermalm at 04:30 on Sunday after a 25-year-old man was seriously injured by a sharp object outside the night boat club Patricia.
The victim was taken to hospital but later died from his injuries. Three young men aged 20-25 could be arrested that morning for murder.
Larger military knife
On Wednesday afternoon, the Stockholm District Court remanded all of them on probable cause, the higher degree of suspicion.
The trio appears with several sections in the load register. The youngest of them has been sentenced a number of times for fine offences, mainly minor drug offences.
At the beginning of the year, he was arrested in central Stockholm with a large military knife in his trouser waistband and was later convicted of a serious crime against the Knife Act. The sentence was five months in prison, but as he appealed the sentence and the Svea Court of Appeal has not yet had his trial, he has not been locked up to serve the sentence.
Was charged with knife murder
The two other men suspected of murder have long lived in the same city, in another part of Sweden, and have been convicted of crimes in cases that are connected to each other. They have a more serious criminal record and have served several prison terms.
One was charged last year with murder, suspected of beating and stabbing a man to death. The district court considered that it was a serious assault and causing another death, but the Court of Appeal acquitted him completely of the attack. Instead, he was sentenced to seven months in prison for drug offences. Last spring, he completed his sentence.
The warning: High risk of recidivism
The third and oldest of the men has been sentenced since the age of criminal responsibility, about ten years ago, but began his criminal career at an even younger age. Social authorities have long sounded the alarm about him and, as a young man, took him into care. In addition to having been convicted of several serious crimes, he has also been suspected of, among other things, murder plots, but was acquitted.
He was released last year from a prison sentence and was on parole until a few weeks ago. During his time locked up, he has received several warnings for misconduct and the Correctional Service has assessed that the man has a high risk of recidivism.